Herbert Martin
(1884-1917)

Herbert married Daisy Burnell of Littleport, Cambridgeshire and together they had four sons, the first two of which appear in the baptism register of a Wesleyan Methodist Chapel in Ely. During this time, they are noted as living in 4th Drove, Little Downham.

Herbert enlisted as a Private of the 7th Battalion of The Northamptonshire Regiment but was tragically killed on his way home at the end of the First World War in a train accident in France.
His name is featured on the Little Downham war memorial and was until recently also on a stone in the cemetery, along with his sister Emma Jane Martin and her husband John William Goodge.

Herbert is named in the Cambridge Regiment's instalment in St. George's Chapel in Ely Cathedral, where it lists the names of the brave who died during the two world wars.

His death left widow Daisy with four children, the oldest being 7 years. A couple of years after Herbert's death, she re-married Reuben Shelton and had a further three children.

Herbert owned a Horse and Cart which was used by "Taylors" the Bakery after his death, to deliver bread around the remote fenland.